Baripada, Mar 16 (PTI) Two persons of a family, including a woman, were critically injured after a leopard pounced on them in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district early on Wednesday, a forest official said.

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Maino Hansda, 47, went outside her home in Tarana village in Bisoi block to defecate when the leopard attacked her, he said.

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On hearing her scream, Samay Hansda, the brother-in-law of the woman, rushed to the spot and got injured while rescuing her.

Locals chased away the leopard to a nearby forest, Bisoi forest range officer Pramod Sethi said.

The injured persons have been admitted to the Rairangpur subdivisional hospital, he added.

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